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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/706",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "—In these Rules any reference to a rule is a reference to a rule contained in the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981, and any reference in a rule to a paragraph or a sub-paragraph is a reference to a paragraph or sub-paragraph of that rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/552; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/523; 1990/1190, 2260."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/706/article/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}